The Aesop for Children, The Wolves and the Sheep, sentence 2

But the Dogs kept them all at a respectful distance, and the Sheep grazed in perfect safety.

Who acts: Dogs, Sheep · What happens: keep, graze · To what, where: Wolves, perfect safety

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dogs, Sheep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 kept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dogs	det
3	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 distance	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 distance	det
9	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 distance	amod
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grazed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grazed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sheep	det
14	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grazed	nsubj
15	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 safety	case
17	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 safety	amod
18	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grazed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the Dogs	Wolves = wolf				at a respectful distance	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme at distance=Location
2	graze	past	the Sheep			perfect safety			vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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